My name is Samantha Maccherola and I am currently a junior here at UMBC. I am a transfer student from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but hail from Carroll County, Maryland. Here at UMBC, I am a member of the Swimming and Diving Team. You can check out our awesome team site here. I am a Media and Communications major with the intentions of one day becoming a news anchor. Oh, and I really like Christmas.
My relationship with the media is pretty intense. however, i feel like it is like every other average American's relationship to the media. We all own and or use a computer every day, we have phones with multiple capabilities besides just the purpose of making phone calls, ipods in everones ears, etc. We are almost all dependant on media to tell us what to think about certain situations as well as help us develope opinions on our world. our dependacy on the media as well as the technology that houses those mediums increases every day. The other day, I borrowed my roomates phone to look for mine (I lose mine a lot) and probably had it for a good half hour. When I returned it she said to me, "You know I never really realized how dependant i was on my blackberry until I didnt have it for thirty minutes. I couldnt check my email or anything!" It is instances such as these that prove that we have become a civilization dependant on the media and the technologies that support them.
